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Question 1

What was the government of the US from 1775 to 1781, and the constitution it adopted was called the articles of confederation?

Answer 1

The second Continental Congress

Question 2

Under the articles of confederation which citizens did the central government have no direct authority over

Answer 2

The citizens of the STATES

Question 3

What was the chief agency of government under the articles?

Answer 3

The CONGRESS

Question 4

What was the most serious defect of the articles?

Answer 4

The AMENDMENT required unanimous concurrence of the states.

Question 5

What did the land ordinance of 1785 written by Thomas Jefferson state?

Answer 5

The land in the NORTHWEST be sold for revenue to pay off the national debt.

Question 6

What form the basis of America’s colonial policy?

Answer 6

The Northwest ordinance.

Question 7

What kind of government did Alexander Hamilton advocate?

Answer 7

Aristocratic

Question 8

What is James Madison known as?

Answer 8

The father of the CONSTITUTION

Question 9

What are the three branches of the new government?

Answer 9

Judicial

Question 10

What did the large state support as a basis for national government?

Answer 10

The Virginia resolutions

Question 11

What is another name for the Connecticut compromise and was the foundation for forming a bicameral legislature consisting of the house of representatives and the Senate?

Answer 11

The great compromise

Question 12

What is a government in which the citizens elect representatives who are charged with responsibility of administration in accordance with the requirement of the law rather than of men?

Answer 12

A republic

Question 13

What is the supreme law of the land?

Answer 13

The Constitution

Question 14

What does the federal union provide between national and state government’s?

Answer 14

A division

Question 15

What are the powers listed in article 1 section 8 of the Constitution?

Answer 15

The delegated

Question 16

What are the powers necessary and proper for Congress to carry out its delegated powers represent a broad area of authority known as?

Answer 16

Implied

Question 17

What are the powers not delegated to converse and or denied to the states called?

Answer 17

The reserved

Question 18

What powers are powers exercise by both the national and state government

Answer 18

The concurrent

Question 19

What did Hamilton Madison and Jay author?

Answer 19

The Federalist papers

Question 20

What was George Washington unanimously elected to in 1789?

Answer 20

The president

Question 21

Who oppose the formation of political parties in the United States?

Answer 21

George Washington

Question 22

The American two party system was a result of between what two men?

Answer 22

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

Question 23

Who was elected the first vice president of the United States?

Answer 23

John Adams

Question 24

Secretary of State

Answer 24

Thomas Jefferson

Question 25

Secretary of treasury

Answer 25

Alexander Hamilton

Question 26

Secretary of war

Answer 26

Henry Knox

Question 27

Attorney General

Answer 27

Edmund Randolph

Question 28

Who made the proposals for solving the problem of the public credit defunding national debt at par and assumption of all stay war debts?

Answer 28

Alexander Hamilton

Question 29

What party was basically pro-French

Answer 29

The Federalist party

Question 30

What potty represented the commercial and professional class?

Answer 30

The Federalist party

Question 31

What party wanted a strong national government?

Answer 31

The Federalist party

Question 32

What federalist was elected president of the United States in 1996?

Answer 32

John Adams

Question 33

What river did Westerners want free navigation?

Answer 33

The Mississippi River

Question 34

The blank of thousands and France was called the reign of terror

Answer 34

The execution

Question 35

In 1994 who was sent to England to negotiate a settlement of disputes?

Answer 35

John jay

Question 36

Between 1797 and 1800 the United States bought an undeclared war with who

Answer 36

France

Question 37

What act allowed the president during the peacetime to in prison or the port dangerous aliens?

Answer 37

The ALIENS act

Question 38

What actor loud the president during wartime to in prison for deport aliens considered a threat?

Answer 38

The aliens enemies act

Question 39

What act made criticism of the government and president a crime?

Answer 39

Sedition

Question 40

In response to the alien and sedition act what two people secretly drafted the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions?

Answer 40

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Question 41

What writings and friends Thomas Jefferson's political thinking?

Answer 41

John Locke

Question 42

Who was a dictator France one Jefferson became president?

Answer 42

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 43

Thomas Jefferson never really believed that the purchase of the Louisiana was?

Answer 43

Constitutional

Question 44

Who did Aaron Burr killed in a duel?

Answer 44

Alexander Hamilton

Question 45

What was the single most important religious event in American history?

Answer 45

The Great awakening

Question 46

What did the naturalization act due to the residence requirement for citizenship?

Answer 46

It extended it